Two New War Voting Bills Sent To Assembly
Governor Darden sent two new war voting bills to the Virginia General Assembly to ease servicemen voting while meeting constitutional limits. One bill keeps poll taxes if federal provisions extend locally. the other creates a fund to pay poll taxes for armed forces members who request it and facilitates registration. Senator Stuart advocates higher local teacher salaries using added state aid, but warns gains may be limited without broader action.
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Richmond
Darden
Virginia General Assembly
Mary
Senate
Congress
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Armed Forces
General Assembly
Harry C. Stuart
Elk
Stuart
Minter
Three Winchester Girls Raise 231 For Red Cross Drive
Three young Winchester girls, Carol Ridgeway Martha Robinson and Mary Joe McPhail, presented a basement play to benefit the Red Cross War Fund. They raised 2 dollars and 31 cents from admission prices 5 and 10 cents as an SRO crowd applauded the performance at City Hall.
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Winchester
Red Cross
City Hall
Susan H. Kabler
Carol Ridgeway
F. C. Ridgeway
S. Stewart St
Martha Robinson
Delmer H. Robinson
W. Leicester St
Mary Joe McPhail
Walter W. McPhail
William Pingley Dies of Sudden Heart Attack at Home
William Burton Pingley 51 longtime Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone employe died of a sudden heart attack at 123 W Monmouth Street this morning at 6 30. He lived with widow Louise Haymaker Pingley and leaves two children Jack Burton and Suzanne. a brother Harry R Pingley. sisters Mrs Carl Roberts and Mrs Earl Nash. Funeral Wednesday 3 PM Jones Funeral Home Mt Hebron Cemetery with Rev Robert Whitten officiating.
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William Burton Pingley
Monmouth Street
Louise Haymaker
Pingley
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Org
Lutheran Church
Telephone Pioneers of America
The
Elks Club
Friendship Fire Company
Jack Burton Pingley
Suzanne Pingley
City
Harry R. Pingley
Winchester
Carl Roberts
Herndon
Earl Nash
Chicago
Ill
Jones Funeral
Robert Whitten
Mt. Hebron
Telephone Company
A. D
Winchester Frederick county over-subscribes E bond quota
War Finance Committee Chairman Wendell Barnes announced Winchester and Frederick county exceeded their E bond quota by 27 412 in the latest drive. He credited residents with embracing the Back the Attack message and urged continued monthly bond sales until victory. The March quota is 85 000 for the city and county.
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Winchester-Frederick County
War Finance Committee
Wendell Barnes
Barney
Winchester
Frederick County
Scout Executive Basil Starkey Visits Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs
Basil Starkey, scout executive of the Shenandoah Area Council, is on a field trip visiting Two Rivers District on Tuesday and Wednesday. A trip to Berkeley Springs is scheduled for Friday.
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Basil Starkey
Shenandoah Area
Jungle Veterans Lead First U S Ground Action in Asia
American jungle veterans, trained in India and Burma, launch a leftward strike in Hukawng Valley and encircle about 2000 Japanese with Walawbum and Maingkwan falling to Chinese troops. They operate without land supply lines, relying on air support as they push deeper into Burma in cooperation with Chinese forces and Maj Gen Chenault’s Air Force.
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New Delhi
Guadalcanal
Southwest Pacific
Burma
Hukawng Valley
Walawbum
Maingkwan
Asia
India
Frank Merrill
Southwest
Pacific
O. C. Wingate
Merrill
Joseph W. Stilwell
Claire L. Chennault
Puerto Rico
Panama
Senator Barkley Missing From White House Meeting
Washington, March 6. Senate Majority Leader Barkley was absent as Congressional leaders met with President Roosevelt for the first time since Barkley resigned over a veto of a tax bill. A White House aide said Barkley was away for a rest and would not return until tomorrow or Wednesday.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Roosevelt
DB Blake
White House
Germans Forced To Hold Best Troops In Italy
Allied dispatches report German casualties exceed 24 000 in three failed attempts to eliminate the Anzio beachhead below Rome. German divisions earmarked for Eisenhower’s invasion are kept in Italy, delaying a spring Channel assault as battles rage across the Italian front.
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Edward Out
Italy
Rome
English Channel
Eisenhower
Hermann Goering
Panzer Grenadiers
Channel
Goering
Anzio
Yugoslavia
France
Germany
Naples
Many Planes Of Japs Destroyed In Major Air Operations
American Mitchell bombers of the 14th Air Force with Chinese escort reportedly destroyed 30 to 50 enemy aircraft on Hainan Island and struck Chengmai airfield in northern Thailand destroying eight twin-engined and one single-engined plane on the ground. Allied pilots claimed several Japanese planes shot down in the Hainan raid and other Mitchells sank a river freighter and tanker on the Yangtze sweep. One Allied plane was lost.
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Chungking
14Th Air Force
Hainan Island
Joseph W. Stillwell
Chengmai
Thailand
Ing
Navy
Cosair
Rabaul
New Guinea
Madang
Herwarth Point
Saidor
Luftwaffe
Charles W. Perry
West New York
N. J
Eldon Newman
Senath
Sali
Berlin
Eighth Air Force
RAF
France
Churchill
Germany
London
Foot
Ministry of Economic Warfare
South End Fire Company to Meet March 6
The regular monthly meeting of the South End Fire Company will be held Monday evening March 6 at 8 o'clock. All members are asked to attend. Public sale follows on Monday March 13 at 4 p.m. featuring livestock machinery chickens hay and other feed at McCartney Farm one mile north of Stephens City on Route 11.
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South End Fire Company
Howard Hart
N. Stephens City
McCartney
Twelve Thousand Monmouthshire Miners Strike Over Wages
Twelve thousand Monmouthshire coal miners walked out today over a wage dispute. The action follows earlier slowdown protests by thousands of pit workers. The Ministry threatened to transfer workers and close pits if output did not recover from a drop to about five thousand tons weekly.
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London
Monmouthshire
Ministry of Fuel
Durham
The
Daily Express
Attorney Miller Sent To Jail
Washington attorney Miller, 67, charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Dr. John E. Lind, a noted psychiatrist. He pleaded not guilty and was ordered jailed with a May 15 trial date. Miller was to be tried in West Virginia court by Judge Ben Moore.
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Washington
John E. Lind
Miller
District of Columbia
Ben Moore
West Virginia
Moore
Dr. Lind
Invasion Expected Any Day Amid Press Hype
A Swedish correspondent in Berlin says invasion may come any day as the press runs anticipatory stories. Hamburg papers warn actions may be feints to mislead German defenses and that no wall can hold back the assault.
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Echangen
Berlin
Hamburg
Gainesboro Gore Lead County Bond Selling Contest
War Finance Committee chairman Wendell Barney announced free movies as awards for county school students with top bond sales. Gainesboro High School students, 275 in all, sold 62 bonds worth 2 dollars each and earned a 22.54 percent rate. they will be treated to Herman Hable at the Palace Theatre. Gore High School led with 3093.75 dollars in bonds sold and an 18.31 percent per-student average, with LaMar Keen inviting them to a Capitol Theatre show. Bryarly, second in sales per student, posted 27 sales totaling 1050 dollars and 21.43 percent. The top individual seller will receive a $10 war stamps prize. Frances May Cather leads early in reports.
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Wendell Barney
War Finance Committee
Gainesboro High School
Herman Hable
Palace Theatre
Washington
Gore High School
LaMar Keen
Capitol Theatre
Bryarly
Frances May Cather
Brogarly
Russians Clamp Grip On Double-Tracked Railroad
Moscow dispatch reports First Ukrainian Army under Zhukov cut the Odessa Lwow railway, severing a key German supply line in southern Russia. Volochisk and surrounding rail hubs were under attack as Soviet forces advanced, with Stalin announcing 6000 Nazi deaths and a 165 mile front line.
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Moscow
Gregory K. Zhukov
Odessa-Lwow
Russia
Volochisk
Tarnopol
Romania
Zrukov
Nikolai Vatutin
Dnieper River
London
Red Army
Dnieper
Ukraine
Impotant
Marshall Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Nikolai K. Vatutin
Old Poland
Dembrovitsi
Lutsk
Belozerka
Berlin
Polio Drive in City Nets $1428
Winchester's 1944 infantile paralysis campaign, led by the Junior Board of Trade, netted $1428.45. Theatre audiences provided the largest share with $936.84, including Capitol Theatre $667.69 and Palace $269.15. Birthday Ball $54.20 and concession $4.45. March of Dimes boxes added $171.83. Expenses totaled $255.87.
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Winchester
Junior Board of Trade
Forrest E.sirbaugh
Capitol Theatre
Palace
Express
Bombing and Frontline Moves Report World War II
Aerials strike Berlin region in first U S raid on German capital since Saturday. Soviet forces seal Volochisk and Odessa Lwow corridor after breaching a 112 mile gap, Nazi divisions retreat. Pacific fronts see Japanese on Hainan bombed by Mitchells while Thailand. Allies push Los Negros mop up after repelling counter attacks.
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Berlin
U. S
Pacific
Hainan Island
China
Thailand
Los Negros Island
Admiralty
More American Troops and Supplies On Admiralties
Allied reports from March 6 describe fresh American reinforcements landing on Los Negros Island and ongoing mopping up of Momote airfield. MacArthur notes heavy Japanese casualties and renewed efforts, as US forces push toward Saidor and Madang while Allied aircraft strike Rabaul and surrounding targets.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Los Negros Island
Admiralty
Janese Mdy
Momote Aichon
Douglas MacArthur
Manus Island
Negros Island
Saiid
MacArthur
M Te
Seadler Harbor
Lorengau
Rabaul
Bombers Deny Berlin Has Been Flattened
American heavy bombers bombed Berlin for the second time in three days after strong anti aircraft fire. Fighters clashed with German defences as the raid stretched over 350 miles from the Netherlands to Berlin. Eyewitnesses describe intense air combat and significant bomber involvement in the day raid.
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London
Berlin
Netherlands
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William Pingley
Nippons
By Preston Grover
Senator Barkley
Gainesboro
Gore
By Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
Odessa-Lnow
Admiralties
Los Negros
Gladwin Hill
RED Cross War Fund
Army
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